ISBN:
9780822383222
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (530 p)
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11 b&w photos, 1 table, 6 maps, 15 figures
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Keywords:
Kinship
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies -- PART I Substantial-Codings: From Blood to Hypertext -- 1. Substantivism, Antisubstantivism, and Anti-antisubstantivism -- 2. The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American Beaver -- 3. Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology -- 4. Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life -- PART II Kinship Negotiations: What’s Biology Not/Got to Do with It -- 5. Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/ Class Politics of Blood Transfusion -- 6. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic -- 7. Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption -- 8. Practicing Kinship in Rural North China -- 9. The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The Case of Grandparenting -- PART III Nature, Culture, and the Properties of Kinship -- 10. The Economies in Kinship and the Paternity of Culture: Origin Stories in Kinship Theory -- 11. Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies -- PART IV ’R’ Genes Us? The Uses of Gene/alogies -- 12. Blood/Kinship, Governmentality, and Cultures of Order in Colonial Africa -- 13. ‘‘We’re Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are’’: Science and Relatedness -- 14. Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet -- PART V Ambivalence and Violence at the Heart of Kinship -- 15. Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s -- 16. Cutting the Ties That Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship -- 17. To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: Captivity, Extra-Tribal Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act -- Contributors -- Index
Abstract:
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors—a group of internationally recognized scholars—examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied a central place within the discipline of anthropology and moving beyond them.Ideas about kinship are vital not only to understanding but also to forming many of the practices and innovations of contemporary society. How do the cultural logics of contemporary biopolitics, commodification, and globalization intersect with kinship practices and theories? In what ways do kinship analogies inform scientific and clinical practices; and what happens to kinship when it is created in such unfamiliar sites as biogenetic labs, new reproductive technology clinics, and the computers of artificial life scientists? How does kinship constitute—and get constituted by—the relations of power that draw lines of hierarchy and equality, exclusion and inclusion, ambivalence and violence? The contributors assess the implications for kinship of such phenomena as blood transfusions, adoption across national borders, genetic support groups, photography, and the new reproductive technologies while ranging from rural China to mid-century Africa to contemporary Norway and the United States. Addressing these and other timely issues, Relative Values injects new life into one of anthropology's most important disciplinary traditions.Posing these and other timely questions, Relative Values injects an important interdisciplinary curiosity into one of anthropology’s most important disciplinary traditions.Contributors. Mary Bouquet, Janet Carsten, Charis Thompson Cussins, Carol Delaney, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Sarah Franklin, Deborah Heath, Stefan Helmreich, Signe Howell, Jonathan Marks, Susan McKinnon, Michael G. Peletz, Rayna Rapp, Martine Segalen, Pauline Turner Strong, Melbourne Tapper, Karen-Sue Taussig, Kath Weston, Yunxiang Yan
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822383222
URL:
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